Sentences with phrase «non-bmr under drought conditions»

The company is currently testing a variety of GM corn in the U.S. that can produce up to 10 % more yield under drought conditions than corn without the modification.

«Likewise, we found BMR did not outperform non-BMR under drought conditions,» Xu said.

Before this study — the largest of its kind — conducted by a team led by Professor Dirk Inzé, scientists had little insight into the genes and genetic processes that drive some plants to limit their growth under drought conditions while others grow normally.

The drought sensitive cultivar» 1110» benefited from the AM fungi under drought conditions, resulting in increased biomass, improved photosynthesis and improved nitrogen - use.

Under drought conditions and without useful AM fungi, the drought tolerant wheat cultivar performed better.

Even though these gains were substantially less than runoff gains during pluvials, additional runoff under drought conditions could help lessen the impact of predicted climate - driven losses in hydrologic connectivity important to native fish in the Salt and Verde watersheds [64].

Our scenarios demonstrated that gains in runoff from thinning could occur even under drought conditions.

«First and foremost, we found that corn and soybean yields were the same across the three systems,» said Pimentel, who noted that although organic corn yields were about one - third lower during the first four years of the study, over time the organic systems produced higher yields, especially under drought conditions.

CAM plants are unique in that under drought conditions their stomates (leaf pores) are open at night rather than during the day (as is the case with most plants).

We've been under drought conditions with half - empty reservoirs in recent years, so switching helps our environment.»

Not exact matches

If it was legitimate on the plateau to pull ministerial rank, or to preach and live as if there existed a kind of clean Christian rank for all of us in the church, we know now that this may not be in Israel in drought, in the church - in - the - world under conditions of sustained exigency.

Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of wind and storm, heat and cold, drought and rain, mysterious diseases and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.

I do research on insect pest and disease resistance and drought tolerance to develop rice plants that are sturdy under unfavorable conditions so that their grain yield is not drastically reduced.

Characterizing drought stress and trait influence on maize yield under current and future conditions.

«The two responses seem to clash with one another, and under normal growing conditions, you don't want the RD26 drought response to be active,» he said.

His exploration of the role of the root microbiome in plant health could eventually assist farmers to grow crops under drought - ridden conditions.

The plant hormone the biologists directly tracked is abscisic acid, or ABA, which plays a major role in activating drought resistance responses of plants and in regulating plant growth under environmental stress conditions.

They do less well than traditional varieties in drought conditions, but much better (providing double the yield per unit amount of water) when both are grown under irrigation.

Accounting for standard growth / mortality rates, the team analyzed tree size - related variation responses based on diameter growth and death under drought and normal conditions; and the percentage of drought - related death.

Also, they said in their grant application, «due to climate change and extensive drought conditions, it is becoming important to breed and design crop plants that are drought tolerant and deliver robust yields even under limited water availability.»

For example, Xue's research showed new drought - tolerant corn hybrids can achieve high yield under reduced irrigation conditions.

Developing drought - tolerant wheat cultivars is a critical strategy for wheat management under water - limited conditions, the nomination stated.

They grew the plants from seeds under conditions the plants might experience naturally (shade, ambient light, high light, high heat and drought).

Qin said a primary objective of this study was to determine if this particular type of soil amendment could have a positive impact on plant growth under stress caused by drought or similar water - deficit conditions.

The program focuses on understanding the physiological mechanisms of crop performance under stress conditions, particularly under drought stress and typically involves 15 - 20 field and greenhouse studies each year.

The film begins in a not - so - distant future under extreme drought conditions.

While it offers a much needed respite from a record - setting drought that lasted roughly half a decade, the conditions are less than ideal for reviewing most new cars, as SoCal freeways typically grind to a halt when it rains and the safe pace required in such weather usually provides very little information about how a vehicle really behaves at speed under typical use.

The 2 % of fires that escape containment do so during extreme weather conditions — drought, high winds, high temperatures that overwhelm fire suppression forces and that are responsible for 97 % of the burn acres each year — they simply can not and should not be fought under extreme conditions as its not only inappropriate ecologically its not fiscally responsible and risky.

The percentage of the region under drought - free conditions (less than D1) remained just above 99 percent from December 30th through January 27th.

Human warming and a climate change induced blocking pattern have withered California under record drought conditions for the better part of three years now.

Our study demonstrated that this type of project can increase runoff by approximately 20 % compared to unthinned forests, even under simulated drought conditions.

In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world's repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions.

Using all 19 models, the average state in the last decade of the twenty - first century is projected under the SRES A1B forcing scenario to be conditions currently considered severe drought (PDSI < — 3) over much of the continental United States and extreme drought (PDSI < — 4) over much of Mexico.

The American Southwest has experienced a series of severe droughts interspersed with strong wet episodes over the past decades, prompting questions about future climate patterns and potential intensification of weather disruptions under warming conditions.

Droughts there would be normal under warming conditions.

It is not unusual for some parts fo the Pacific to see droughts under certain conditions not matter what the mixing ratio is.

Field and his colleagues analyzed data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and four other satellite instruments, along with airport visibility records, to understand the drought conditions under which the 2015 fires in Indonesia occurred.

el, luke did a good job taking on the faux concern of the weirdos at Deltoid and pointing out that there are real, disastrous consequences to AGW «remedies», unlike the imaginary consequences of AGW; in fact when luke goes to town he can even quell, or at least bemuse, even the most elitist of the AGW acolytes; for instance there was a thread at Taminos a couple of years ago when luke got going and absolutely paper - snowed them with masses of detail about the expanding drought conditions facing Australia under the yoke of AGW; unfortunately I have lost the link but I'm sure luke will oblige us.

The full impact of the drought on the state's agricultural regions is not yet quantified, but preliminary results from a University of California - Davis study suggest that Central Valley farms will receive 6.5 million acre - feet less surface water than under normal conditions.

This approach also has other huge benefits — it helps to restore the overall health of ecosystems in other ways, and organic agriculture has been shown to be more productive than «conventional» agriculture under the conditions of drought which AGW is already making more common.

Hey Dogz bet you will have an air conditioner, still have a place to live and supplies of fresh drinking water when other places go under and are suffering extreme heat wave conditions and drought.

In California, dry years coupled with warm conditions are more likely to lead to severe drought than dry, cool years, and the probability of warm and dry conditions coinciding is likely to increase under anthropogenic climate change.

Under these conditions, when a prolonged drought strikes, the system collapses.»

The bottom line «carbon balance» of a tree depends on both photosynthetic uptake and respiratory losses, and it is almost certainly the case that those losses (which were not seen by the satellite) increased under the hotter and drier conditions of the drought as well.